Obama shook hands with mexican archaeologist who died a week later

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Obama's swine flu scare after shaking hands with archaeologist who died a week later
By David Gardner
Last updated at 3:49 PM on 28th April 2009

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A man who shook Barack Obama's hand in Mexico died the next week from symptoms similar to those of swine flu.
The White House insisted the President's health was not in any danger, but he was said to be taking the threat of an epidemic 'very seriously'.
The President's health advisers were already concerned about his visit south of the border after learning the contagious virus first struck in Mexico City on April 13 - three days before Mr Obama flew in to meet government officials.
Their alarm grew after learning that Felipe Solis, director of the National Anthropology Museum, had died from pneumonia.

Mexican health boss Jose Cordova, however, said Mr Solis was already ill and his death was unrelated to swine flu.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs insisted: ?The president?s trip to Mexico has not put his health in any danger.?

He added: ?The incubation period is 24 to 48 hours and we have been back from Mexico for nine days now. The doctors say he was not at risk.?

Mr Obama was in Mexico for less than a day before heading to a ?Summit of the Americas? in Trinidad and Tobago.

Mr Obama took some flak for playing golf on Sunday, but Mr Gibbs said he was being updated regularly on the outbreak by the State Department and the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The virus is said to have infected twelve people in Kansas, California, Ohio and Texas and sickened at least another eight students in New York.

Speaking at a White House briefing last night, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said a ?stockpile? of anti-viral drugs was being released to help keep the disease at bay.
Announcing a state of emergency, she said border security would be increased with visitors being quizzed over possible swine flu symptoms.
Worried about a possible impact on the farming industry, she emphasised: ?I want to underscore that you can?t get swine flu from eating pork.?

?The president is very concerned about the recent cases of swine flu,? added presidential assistant John Brennan.
He said Mr Obama was offering his ?full support? to Mexico efforts to control the disease.
?The U.S. government is working to ?mitigate a broader outbreak in the United States.?

Dr Richard Besser, acting director of the Centre for Disease Control, urged Americans to improve hygiene by washing hands more regularly and staying at home if they fell sick.
?We expect to see more cases of swine flu,? he said, adding that work was under way to identify and produce a vaccine.
Of the U.S. swine flu patients, only one needed hospital treatment and none of those infected were seriously ill.

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[pablomorgan]

Re: Obama shook hands with mexican archaeologist who died a week later

Noted archeologist Felipe Solis Holguin died of a heart attack, and not the day after he showed Obama around the Museum of Anthropology, but on 23 April. Obama visited Mexico on 16 and 17 April.

 

[Vince_D]

Re: Obama shook hands with mexican archaeologist who died a week later

Oh dear, did he really die from a heart attack? That would be typical for the media in the US. Now they're suspecting the president of suffering from swine flu. And again, they don't have any proof that the Mexican archaeologist died due to the consequences of swine flu. Creating hype has become good business in our country.

 

[Salinas]

Re: Obama shook hands with mexican archaeologist who died a week later

Noted archeologist Felipe Solis Holguin died of a heart attack, and not the day after he showed Obama around the Museum of Anthropology, but on 23 April. Obama visited Mexico on 16 and 17 April.

there are few courius things.. Felipe died of pneumonia of bacterial origin! But .. in this particular case, his pneumonia it is important not to be considered linked to the ongoing "birdie swine flu" epidemia. He had pre-existing medical conditions like diabetes miellitus, hypertension, imunodepression. IF his pneumonia was also pre-existing condition, well .. at his age and medical condition the symptoms would have been very visible. So .. almost no chance to be allowed to get close to a country president.

Solis was hospitalised on april 18 because of pneumonia. 18 april means 2 days after Obama's visit; influenza has 1-2 days incubation period, a pneumonia of a bacterial etiology in a immunosuppressed person needs about 24-48 hours to manifest. There are very big chances that he was contagious at that moment.

BUT .. if the officials would admit that Solis died of influenza .. we are in a bit of trouble. Considering the population size of Mexico City and the spread of the flu, and if we do a bit of math to see the probabilities .. we could say Solis was a very unlucky person.

If his pneumonia was unlinked to influenza , well .. we have a very interesting concidence.